#invincible amanda

Amanda "Mandy"

Nickname(s): Mandy (HATES)

Species: Magically Enhanced Human

Gender: Female

Age: Adult (chronologically), Toddler (physically)

Additional Headcanons:

How she got her powers is the same as in the comics, im purposely being vague just in case some haven't / don't plan on reading them.

By the time she meets the Guardians, Amanda's had her powers for quite some time and has used them a bit too much. As a result, she looks like a 3 year old but her monster form is gigantic and incredibly strong.

Another huge reason why she's so de-aged already is that she uses her titan form to intimidate people / when she's pissed. Amanda lets her anger get the best of her and while it feels great to deck someone in the face, all the transforming has clearly taken a toll.

For obvious reasons, Amanda doesn't get with Rudy in Indomitable nor does she have a partner.

Because of her appearance, many talk down to her and treat her like, well, a child. The nickname "Mandy" is a bothersome reminder of that as she sees it more as people babying her rather than taking her seriously.

To make up for her child-like appearance, Amanda has a much bolder and more brash exterior. She swears a lot, gives attitude, and doesn't sugar coat anything; ironically, the constant cursing makes her seem even more immature.

Absolutely hates being carried and will bite or punch anyone who attempts.

Her Titan Toddler form has thick, fireproof scales, rough skin, sharp claws, and mountains of muscles, making her one of the more useful and adaptable Guardians.

Rudolph "Rudy" Conners

Nickname(s): Rudy

Species: Human (born), Viltrumite (cloned)

Gender: Male

Age: Adult

Additional Headcanons:

Again, Rudy's backstory up until the cloning storyline is the same as in the comics / show and I won't go into detail just in case.

Rather than going after Rex to get Amanda's attention (which i always thought was WEIRD and DUMB but moving on), Rudy instead thinks from a more tactile and advantageous standpoint. He and Cecilia are much closer in Indomitable, so he's one of the first besides Donald teleported in to see the mess Nolan left behind after murdering the original Guardians. Rudy offers to help with cleanup which Cecilia doesn't think twice about agreeing to since she has a whole new set of heroes to band together to save the world.

As Rudy's cleaning up the blood he uses microscopic tool to sample just enough of the tissue from the floor; he has no clue who's it is, but he needs this. Fast forward to when he makes shady deals with the Mauler Twins to grow him a new body and transfer his consciousness, it turns out Rudy hit the jackpot: he'd grabbed Nolan's DNA...dun dun dunnnn

Being that Viltrumites have so many biological advantages over humans, it takes Rudy a minute to get used to his new stolen body. He's extremely cautious about showing off his new form and it takes him months to show even Amanda, his closest friend (?); naturally she's horrified to see another Omni-Man walking around and tells Rudy to "put that thing away before Mark sees and flips his shit".

Another advantage Rudy sees is that now Earth has a Viltrumite that's 100% loyal and won't be turning on everyone for Viltrum...the obvious downside is that he can't publicly show his face without brows being raised at the minimum. Cecilia's just as torn; she hates seeing Nolan 2.0 wandering around her facilities, but Rudy is right to some extent - with Nolan off the grid, Mark too unreliable and worried about what other's think, and the new Guardians being a fucking catastrophe, she doesn't have a great defense if god forbid more Viltrumites happened to come to Earth. She's not exactly comfortable with this, and honestly fears what Mark would do should he find out, but has to accept it for the obvious advantage.

Mark does eventually find out and goes nuclear, quitting the Guardians mid-panic attack and ending his weird, distant friendship with Rudy and by extent, Amanda since she'd known for months at this point. He drills all the other Guardians (Rae, Kate, Shapesmith, Samson, and Immortal) and remains civil with them after learning that they were just as blindsided. Rudy tries to apologize and explain himself but it comes out more as "I'm sorry you feel that way, but Earth needed an actual strong, reliable Viltrumite" which makes everything worse.

Rudy wants nothing to do with the Viltrumite Empire or wars or anything related; he just happened to get lucky and steal some demigod's DNA and all he plans on doing is protecting Earth.

Kate & Paul Cha

Nickname(s): N/A

Species: Magically Enhanced Human

Gender(s): Female & Male

Age(s): Adult

Additional Headcanons:

The twins' backstory is the same as in the comics / show, no spoilers, etc etc

Despite the fact that both were taken in completely different directions, they miss each other deep down. Kate hates that her brother is a criminal and secretly fears she'll have to fight or kill him one day and vice versa.

Unlike in the show, Kate is actually good friends with Mark when they're on the Guardians together. They enjoy training with each other as both have strong martial arts backgrounds and even find themselves gossiping whenever they have down time or even mid-battle.

After Kate had almost been killed by the Lizard League, she felt like the only one who actually gave her a chance to explain herself was Mark; she felt like everyone else either judged her for "giving up that easily" or leaving for an easier life. After moving off the grid, Kate keeps in contact with him and sends him postcards here and there.

After leaving hero life for good, the first thing Kate does is go to therapy which she'd honestly needed for...decades. It helps and she even picks up a few hobbies like hiking, crochet, and even volunteers at a local elementary school.

Rex is a nervous bitch

he hasnt really had a first kiss he's cared that much about since he was fourteen with Eve

and even then he was fourteen so he didn't really know how big of a deal it was

BUT this is post-lobotomy Rex

and he really likes you

and he can't mess this up

he can't "Rex it up" as Amanda lovingly put it when he begged her for help

"Pleaaase Amanda- you're a woman- kinda- you know about this romance junk!" he pressed his palms into prayer and knelt at her, shuffling towards her comedically as she rolled her eyes

"First-!" she shoved a pointed finger into his face "Don't call romance 'junk', it's annoying."

Amanda sighed a long, heavy sigh, and pinched her temple

"And two, I'm calling in reinforcements."

two hours later Rex is in his room with Mark, Eve, William, Amanda, and Rudy all piled in

Rex isn't sure why William OR Rudy are there, but he figures more the merrier

"ooookay." William starts, leaning onto his propped up knee "You've been seeing this person for how long?"

Rex swallowed his spit nervously "uhm... we've been like talking and going on dates and shit for a few weeks- uhhh..." he starts counting on his fingers before Rudy cuts him off

"Rex and Y/n have been mutually exclusive for two months and three days."

Eve's jaw goes slack "Two months?! Rex what the hell?" her scolding is teasing yet bewildered, a playful hand gesturing from its place around Mark's shoulder "Just kiss them already, why are you being a wuss?"

Rex buries his head in his hands, overwhelmed by the overlapping conversation and criticism as the room erupts into dialogue

"I JUST-" he calls out, quieting the room

"I want to make it memorable. And... special."

His face is on fire

he's blushing so hard it hurts

Okay now they HAVE to help him figure this out

so three hours of brainstorming and meticulous planning-- some light lunch and snacking-- later, Rex has a game plan

Everyone shuffles out of his room as quietly as they can, except for Eve, who tells Mark she'll catch up in just a minute

The door closes them into the same space, alone

"Oh, uh... what's up, Eve?" Rex's shoulders tensed as he took in Eve's serious expression and folded arms

She broke out in a small smile "Do you really like this person, Rex? Like you're not going to cheat and be a dick?"

He nodded a small, but intentional nod. Intimidated as fuck by his ex-girlfriend.

She responded by rushing forward and pulling him into a bone crushing hug

"oOoooo I'm so excited for you" she pulled him closer, as he slowly wrapped his arms around her in return

"Ha- Thanks, Eve. I appreciate it."

Eve pulled back and stared into his eyes intensely "Don't freak out, just be yourself, okay? I'm so happy for you, Rex."

As they separated and Eve made her way out, Rex flopped back onto his bed

He'd just received the blessing of his only true friend, this couldn't possibly go wrong.

A few days later, and you're reading in your room

a slip of paper came under the door

"Hm?" you set your book down and went to retrieve it

It was a crude drawing of the two of you-- yourself and Rex-- in the mountains?

It was hard to tell

he was not a good artist.

Regardless, you opened the door to find another piece of paper

and another

and another

all littered with doodle of the two of you, tracing through the GotG HQ to the "back door" so to speak

"Rex?" You inquired cautiously, fearful it may be a trap

"Hey!"

you flung around and caught Rex's nose in a high kick, before realizing your mistake and covering your mouth in surprise

"Ah!! Rex!! fuck- I'm so sorry!"

Rex hit the snowy floor like a crumbled piece of paper, holding his bruised nose and trying to shake it off

"iiiii'm good! I'm fine! Wuh-uhh... fuuuuck." He steadied himself by leaning onto you a little, wrapping an arm around you

You assessed the situation, thankfully not having broken his nose

"Oh Rex, I'm so sorry... and after all your hard work with those drawings.... is there anything I can do to help?"

"You can kiss it better."

The silence was thick with romantic tension, and you stared at him wide eyed while he stared back in abject horror-- at himself, not you

"No-NO! FUck- this wasn't- Ugh! Stupid- Stupid0" he groaned, sitting in the snow and leaning against the GHQ

You looked down at him, confused

He just held his bruised face in his hands "That's not how it was supposed to go."

Carefully, you sat next to him in the thick, powdery snow.

"How what was supposed to go?" you placed a loving hand on his upper arm

Rex leaned into your touch, eventually leaning his head onto your shoulder "I wanted to say all this shit about how much you mean to me- and how much of a better person I want to be for you, and all this stuff..." he pulled out snow-soggied crumpled notecards, passing the ball of paper to you as you deciphered key phrases and bullet points

He sighed again, nuzzling into your shoulder "Iwanted our firstkiss tobe special, yknow?" he looked up at you with the saddest eyes, obviously welling with tears "You deserve that much."

Now it was your turn to blush so hard it hurt

or maybe it was the cold.

"R-Rex- I don't... I mean..."

the longer you trailed off the louder the thumping in Rex's chest got

eventually, though, you spit it out

With a warm affect "Rex, you're so perfect."

and you leaned down, kissing his lips gently

He reacted swiftly, bringing his hand to your cheek, warmth bringing solace and comfort to the bitter cold threatening to permeate your layers the longer the two of you sat in the snow.

The kiss lasted what felt like forever

but in reality it was maybe three minutes

You noticed Rex opening and closing his eyes, to check if you were still there

When you finally had to part lips, Rex sifted himself up to be level with you, allowing him to wrap an arm around your shoulder and pull your head to his chest

"I really like you, Y/n. And I want to be a good guy for you."

"You are a good guy, you're the best guy I could ask for."

"No. I'm not. But don't worry, babe." his humorous tone crept back into the serious situation, easing the tension a little